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Foundation Board unanimously elected the renowned ethnomusicologist today / Parzinger: Koch impresses with his expertise, experience and network The ethnomusicologist Lars-Christian Koch will become Director of the Ethnological Museum and soon also of the Museum of Asian Art of the National Museums

The Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy today awarded Hermann Parzinger the Grand Cross of the Order of Alfonso X the Wise (Gran Cruz de Alfonso X el Sabio) in Segovia. This is one of the highest Spanish honours for services to research, literature, art and education. Parzinger received the honour

The lawsuit against the SPK for the return of the Guelph Treasure was allowed by the U.S. Court of Appeals, but dismissed against the Federal Republic of Germany. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will now examine further options. In February 2015, a lawsuit for the return of the Guelph Trea

The "Humboldt Lab Tanzania" project and the closely related provenance research project "Tanzania-Germany: Shared Object Histories?" have been running at the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin since 2016. The museum worked together with actors from Tanzania on object histories of

The German-American Exchange on Provenance Research will enter its third year after the upcoming autumn meeting in Munich. Interested parties can apply for 2019 until 28 September 2018. The "German-American Provenance Exchange Program for Museum Professionals (PREP)" is intended to help expand the m

For the first time in the history of these institutions, women are at the helm. At its meeting yesterday, the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation decided to appoint art historian Dagmar Korbacher as Director of the Museum of Prints and Drawings. From 1 November 2018, she w

The importance of cultural heritage for the future of Europe is to be strengthened. To this end, the organisers of the European Cultural Heritage Summit formulated the "Berlin Call to Action" and presented it today in Berlin after the topic was discussed in high-profile panels. Renowned public and p

Over the next ten years, the Alwaleed Philanthropies Foundation will support the future permanent exhibition of the Museum of Islamic Art in the renovated Pergamon Museum, educational formats, cultural education in schools and the "Multaka" project The Museum of Islamic Art of the National Museums i

Humboldt Forum, James-Simon-Galerie, the interim building for the Pergamon Museum, Staatsbibliothek Unter den Linden, debates about the Bauakademie: the centre of Berlin is changing. A new magazine looks at the present and future of the historically evolved centre. Under the new title "SPK - Das Mag

The reconstruction of the Berlin Palace as the Humboldt Forum successfully passes an important milestone: on 29 May, the first major object from the National Museums in Berlin, the world's only airboat from Oceania, arrives on schedule in the exhibition hall on the first floor. Hans-Dieter Hegner, C